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SSP/LW/NP-34/2016-18 @TheDailyPioneer instagram.com/dailypioneer/ Established 1864 OPINION 8 Published From WORLD 12 SPORT 15 DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL PERILS OF DIGITAL MACRON CALLS FOR ORDER AFTER REAL MADRID WIN BHUBANESWAR RANCHI RAIPUR DEMOCRACY ‘YELLOW VEST’ ATTACK ON POLICE FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP CHANDIGARH DEHRADUN Late City Vol. 154 Issue 344 LUCKNOW, MONDAY DECEMBER 24, 2018; PAGES 16 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable NO CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY FOR RANBIR} KAPOOR} 14 VIVACITY www.dailypioneer.com BJP meets adamant JD(U)-LJP halfway Only BJP can build Shah, Nitish agree on 17 seats for each in Bihar; Paswan has his way with 6 seats for LS polls Ram temple in PNS n NEW DELHI Addressing a joint Press Taking a dig at the BJP, conference with Paswan and Tejashwi tweeted that despite Ayodhya: Yogi ays after the Lok Janshakti Bihar Chief Minister Nitish having achieved power through DParty served an ultimatum Kumar, BJP president Amit the back door in Bihar and hav- on the BJP to end the logjam Shah asserted that the NDA ing 22 sitting MPs, the party PNS n LUCKNOW over seat-sharing in Bihar, the will win more than 31 seats it agreed to give an equal num- NDA big brother made a major had in 2014 and expressed ber of seats to Nitish, who had hief Minister Yogi compromise by agreeing to confidence that it will come returned with a tally of only CAdityanath said that only contest five seats less than they back to power in 2019. two seats. “Now you can under- the Bharatiya Janata Party won in the 2014 Lok Sabha The deal suggests a victo- stand the dire straits the NDA could build the Ram Mandir at polls in Bihar, allotting 17 seats ry of sorts for the LJP, which is in,” the RJD leader said. the Ram Janmabhoomi and not to the Janata Dal(U) and six to had adopted an aggressive Ending its 17-year-old those who considered Ram the LJP. The BJP will contest 17 stand seeking a better bargain alliance with the NDA, the and Krishna as mythical fig- of the 40 seats in the State. from the BJP after the exit of JD(U) had contested 2014 Lok ures. “The youths should make While the BJP and the Upendra Kushwaha-led RLSP Sabha polls alone. Following its people aware that if anyone can JD(U) had already agreed to from the ruling alliance. poor performance, it forged the do this work it is our party,” contest equal number of seats, Shah said all allies will “mahagathbandhan” with the Yogi said while responding to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and but till the LJP mounted pres- soon decide on distribution of RJD and the Congress and the the slogans raised by young Governor Ram Naik at Yuva Kumbh in sure, there were indication that Lok Sabha constituencies alliance achieved a handsome participants from across the Lucknow on Sunday Pioneer the BJP wanted the junior part- among them for fielding their victory in 2015 Bihar Assembly country who congregated for ner to agree to contest 4-5 seats candidates in 2019. polls. Nitish, who had in the the Yuva Kumbh at the Smriti However, he warned, that if this only. However, the LJP clinched Paswan, whose son Chirag meanwhile taken over as the Upvan on Sunday. energy was used in a negative a good bargain as besides the had created a flutter with his JD(U) president, walked out of At the start of the speech by manner it could drag the coun- six seats it will get to contest, comments seen as critical of the the alliance last year following the Chief Minister, the youths try to the lowest levels. Yogi party chief Ram Vilas Paswan BJP and the Central corruption allegations against assembled there shouted: “The asked youths to take the mes- will also be sent to the Rajya Government, on Sunday Tejashvi, his then deputy. vote will go to the party which sage of Kumbh to different Sabah as a NDA nominee. claimed there was never a The JD(U) chief stitched a gets the temple constructed.” parts of the country. He said The present strength of problem in the alliance as he BJP president Amit Shah with JD(U) chief and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Union Minister and LJP president Ram Vilas new alliance with the BJP, The Chief Minister also Kumbh was symbolic of unity the BJP in Bihar is 22, while the has nurtured the “NDA tree” Paswan with his son Chirag Paswan before a meeting at Shah’s residence in New Delhi on Sunday Pioneer photo which had been smarting cautioned youths against peo- of the culture that existed in the JD(U) has only two member in for five years under Modi’s under its humiliating defeat in ple who were conspiring country. Recalling the words of the Lok Sabha. The LJP had leadership. A Government 32 of the 40 seats in Bihar in Sabha, Nitish Kumar said it is Mahagathbandhan, Tejashwi the Assembly polls. The grand against the country. “Be wary a former Chief Minister of contested seven seats in the under Modi will be formed 2009 even though results across a recognition to his long service claimed that the BJP gave in to alliance, of which the RJD is the of people who are scripting Kerala, Yogi said the former 2014 polls and barring one, all again, he said. the country had gone against it. to the country and also thanked arm-twisting by Nitish and largest constituent, was left conspiracies against the coun- Chief Minister had expressed its candidates had won. The Dalit leader also “This time we will do better the BJP for the decision. Paswan. His remark was a ref- truncated and it suffered set- try,” he said. Calling upon that if the country did not have BJP’s decimation in seat thanked Finance Minister than that,” he said. He was a Paswan is a nine-term member erence to Paswan’s son and LJP backs like former State youths to use their talent and one culture then a man from arrangements prompted the Arun Jaitley, who played a role BJP ally in 2009 before parting of the Lok Sabha and the deci- Parliamentary Board chief Congress president Ashok energy, the Chief Minister said Kerala called Adi RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav to in brokering peace between his ways with it in 2013. He joined sion means that the 72-year-old Chirag Paswan recently writing Choudhary joining the JD(U) at the inaugural session of the Shankaracharya would not take a jibe at the BJP for agree- party and the BJP. the NDA again in 2017. leader is unlikely to contest any to Jaitley and requesting him to along with his supporters. It Yuva Kumbh that if they used have established a peeth in all ing to contest only 17 seats in In his comments, the Bihar Commenting on the deci- more popular election and will elucidate the benefits of received a shot in the arm their energy in a constructive four corners of the country. Bihar in the Lok Sabha polls Chief Minister, who enjoys sion to send Paswan, present- be handing over the reins of the demonetisation so that his recently with the RLSP, a manner, they could take the Talking about the concep- next year despite having won good equations with Paswan, ly a Lok Sabha member from party to his son. party could explain the same to former NDA ally, joining the country to great heights in the tion of the idea of having a 22 in the last general elections. noted that the NDA had won Hajipur in Bihar, to the Rajya On his part as leader of the its voters. alliance. international scenario. Continued on Page 4 CAPSULE 8 KIDS AMONG 10 DEAD AS BUS FALLS INTO GORGE Sabarimala devotees 222 perish in Indonesia tsunami Ahmedabad: Eight children were among the 10 people who were killed when a bus in which they were returning after enjoying a chase away women picnic fell into a 200-feet gorge in Gujarat’s Dang district, police police had forced them to said on Sunday. P6 abandon their plan to visit the hill shrine and return. CBSE X EXAM FROM However, rejecting the FEB 21, XII FROM FEB 15 charge, the police said that the New Delhi: The Central Board of activists had came back on Secondary Education (CBSE) on their own due to security issues, Sunday released the date sheet adding that two cases were reg- of Class X and class XII istered against the protesters examination 2019 on its official based on the complaint lodged website. According to the date by Manithi members. sheet, Class XII board Earlier, braving several examination will be held from protests on their way, the 11- February 15 to April 3, 2019, member team, all belonging to while the Class X board the traditionally-barred age examination will be held from group, reached here by 3.30 am Feb 21 to March 29, 2019. through the Idukki- Kambamedu route on the PM ANNOUNCES AWARD Kerala-Tamil Nadu border. FOR NATIONAL UNITY Eleven members of the Chennai-based ‘Manithi’ wait at the foothills of the Lord Of the 11, six carried the New Delhi: Prime Minister Ayyappa Temple as devotees protested against their attempt to trek the shrine, at traditional irumudikettu which Narendra Modi has announced Pamba, in Pathanamthitta on Sunday PTI is mandatory to climb the the institution of a new national “pathinettam padi” (holy steps honour for National Unity on the PTI n PAMBA them away.